Hotel Solution

Guest portal, request management, room board, speed packages and lost & found

Guest Portal

The Hotel Guest Portal is where you configure the single-QR digital guest page you offer to staying guests: housekeeping and room-service requests, hotel information, events and the menu all run from it.

How do I open this screen? From the left menu, go to Bumerang → BUSINESS → Hotel Guest Portal.

Hotel Guest Portal screen

The top bar holds five quick links: Guest page (opens the page as the guest sees it), Management, Requests (with the pending count beside it), Room QR and Studio.


1. Hotel Profile


2. Request Types

The list of needs the guest can choose on their "Requests" screen. The built-in types are: Room Service, Housekeeping / Cleaning, Extra Request (towel, pillow), Technical Fault, Late Checkout, Early Check-in, Spa & Massage Appointment, Transfer Request.

Use Add to define your own: a name (for example Iron) and an icon (Pool, Spa, Breakfast, Café, Wi-Fi, Clock, Parking, Laundry, Activity, General).


3. Hotel Information

The opening-hours and information cards shown on the guest page. Each row is a Title (for example Pool) and a Value (for example 08:00-20:00). Putting your most-asked details here — breakfast times, pool hours, Wi-Fi information — takes load off reception.


4. Events

Fills the "Events" section of the guest page. For each entry you set a date, a time (for example 21:00), a title and an optional description.


5. Staff Application

The Open application button opens the screen where staff can follow and close requests from their phone. Housekeeping and the technical team use this screen.


6. Room QR Codes

Generates the QR codes you place in the rooms, in bulk:

Tip: if you also want scanning the QR to connect the guest to Wi-Fi, enable Embed Wi-Fi in QR codes on the Captive Portal → Portal Settings page.


Request Management

Request Management is the control screen of your hotel operation: filter every incoming request, assign it to staff, close it and read the end-of-day summary. Use the Request Monitor at reception for fast operation and this screen for oversight and reporting.

How do I open this screen? From the left menu, go to Bumerang → BUSINESS → Request Management.

Request Management screen


1. Headline figures

Status strip

The strip beneath summarises the live operation: Rooms (total), Dirty, Faulty, Pending, In progress, Oldest pending (minutes) and Unassigned staff. When something needs priority, a warning appears above (for example "There is a faulty point, give it priority").


2. Tabs

The screen is divided into five tabs: Requests, Rooms, SLA Rules, Notifications and Assignment. Rooms, SLA Rules and Notifications are described on their own pages.


3. Open New Request (reception)

When a guest phones or comes to reception, you open the request yourself:


4. Filters

Apply runs the filter and Clear resets it. With no matches, the page reads "There are no requests for these filters."


5. Closing a request

Close a request with the Close as completed button. For fault requests, the Close fault dialog lets you select or take a resolution photo — attaching a record of the work done to the request.


6. End-of-day summary

The End-of-day summary card shows the day's request volume, completions and average response time. It is the summary to read at shift handover.


Request Monitor

The Request Monitor is the operations screen where guest requests land in real time. A sound plays when a new request arrives. Leave this screen open at reception.

How do I open this screen? From the left menu, go to Bumerang → BUSINESS → Request Monitor.

Request Monitor screen


How the screen works

The monitor is a stripped-down version of Request Management: no filters, no reports — just incoming requests and one-tap closing. The point is that during a busy moment staff can glance at the screen and act within seconds.


What a request card shows

Each request is listed as a card:


For the audible alert: the screen must stay open in the browser. If you close the tab, no sound plays for new requests. We recommend keeping it open in a dedicated tab on the reception computer.

Mobile use: for housekeeping and the technical team, use the Open application link under Hotel Guest Portal → Staff Application; requests can be followed and closed from a phone.


Room Board

The Room Board shows the live status of every room in the hotel on one screen: which rooms are clean, which are dirty, which have a fault, and who they are assigned to. It is the operational map for the floor supervisor and reception.

How do I open this screen? From the left menu, go to Bumerang → BUSINESS → Room Board. (It is the same screen as the Rooms tab in Request Management.)

Room Board screen


1. Building the room list

At the top of the board is the Create room list field. Enter the first and last room number and press Add; every room in between is added to the board.

Note: rooms that raise a request are added automatically. When the cleaning or fault record is completed, the room returns to clean.


2. Room states

Each room appears as a card. Clicking the card cycles its state:

Clean → Dirty → Faulty → Clean


3. Assigning staff

Every room card has a staff selector. You can leave it as — unassigned — or choose an employee from the list. The number of unassigned rooms is totalled in the Unassigned staff figure in the top strip.


4. Checkout

Each card carries a Checkout button. Marking a guest's departure puts the room into the cleaning cycle.

For restaurant / café use: if Hotel Guest Portal → Venue type is set to Restaurant / Café, the board works with points such as restrooms, stations and tables instead of rooms, and the checkout step is hidden.


5. Headline figures

Live counts sit above the board: Rooms (total), Dirty, Faulty, Pending, In progress, Oldest pending (minutes) and Unassigned staff. This is the first thing to check at the start of a shift.


Speed Package Sales

Speed Package Sales lets you sell paid internet packages to your guests. The guest picks a package, the amount is charged to their room, reception approves it, and the guest's speed is raised.

How do I open this screen? From the left menu, go to Bumerang → BUSINESS → Speed Package Sales.

Speed Package Sales screen

Prerequisite: before you can define a package, you must create a RADIUS group matching the speed policy under Guests → Groups. The group name must match the policy name on the firewall exactly. Without one, the screen warns: "There is no RADIUS group defined for this device."

1. Sell on the Wi-Fi exit page

With this switch on, the guest sees the packages on the exit screen after connecting and can buy directly. Enabling it also activates the Wi-Fi exit page automatically.


2. New Package

Use the New Package button to define a package for sale:

Save creates the package; Cancel closes the form.


3. Packages

The list of defined packages. With none defined it reads "No packages defined yet."


4. Orders

Guests' purchase requests land here. Once reception approves one, the amount is charged to the room and written into the Upsell (approved) figure on the Request Management screen. With no orders it reads "No orders yet."


SLA Rules

SLA Rules define how quickly requests must be handled. If a request is not picked up or not completed within the time you set, managers receive a notification — so late work does not slip through.

How do I open this screen? From the left menu, go to Bumerang → BUSINESS → SLA Rules. (It is the same screen as the SLA Rules tab in Request Management.)

SLA Rules screen

The engine checks every 5 minutes, so a breach turns into a notification within five minutes at most.


Add Rule

The Add Rule button saves the rule. With none defined, the screen reads "No rules yet."


Keep the number of rules small. Too many rules generate constant notifications, and before long nobody reads them.


Hotel Notifications

Overdue Request Notifications lists the requests that breached your SLA rules. This screen is the single answer to "which job slipped?".

How do I open this screen? From the left menu, go to Bumerang → BUSINESS → Notifications. (It is the same screen as the Notifications tab in Request Management.)

Overdue Request Notifications screen


How the screen works

If a request is not picked up or completed within the time defined on the SLA Rules page, a notification lands here. The rule engine checks every 5 minutes.

With no notifications, the screen reads:

"No notifications. This stays empty as long as your SLA rules are met."

So an empty screen is good news — your operation is running inside the targets you set.


What to do when a notification arrives

  1. Open the request from the Requests tab.
  2. If nobody has taken it, assign it to a staff member from the Room Board.
  3. If it was taken but is dragging on, contact the employee or hand the request to someone else.
  4. If notifications keep repeating for the same request type, either the target is unrealistic or that area is understaffed — review the duration on the SLA Rules page.

SMS alerts: to also receive notifications on your phone for critical request types, enable Also send SMS on the relevant rule.


Lost & Found

Lost & Found lets you record and track items found during cleaning, with a photo. When a guest calls, you can answer "has anything like that been handed in?" within seconds.

How do I open this screen? From the left menu, go to Bumerang → BUSINESS → Lost & Found.

Lost & Found screen


1. Status counters and filters

Three counters sit at the top of the page: Found (pending), Returned to owner and Archive. The All / Found / Returned to Owner / Archive buttons underneath filter the list by status.


2. Add Item

The Add Item button opens a new record:


3. Table columns


4. Update Status

Opening a record lets you change its status:

Note (who collected it, when, etc.): record the handover here. If a dispute arises later you have a record — we recommend noting the staff member who handed it over, the person who collected it, and the time.

Confirm your changes with Save.


Hotel Studio

Hotel Studio is where you edit the design of the guest page directly on a live preview. Tap the text and type, drag rows by their handle, tap the cover or logo to replace them — no code required.

How do I open this screen? From the left menu, go to Bumerang → BUSINESS → Studio. (The Studio button on the Hotel Guest Portal screen opens it too.)

Hotel Studio screen


1. Direct editing

Page sections are managed here too: + add request type adds a new request type and + add information adds a new hotel-information row.


2. Ready-made themes

Choosing a theme bundle changes all colours and typography in one move:


3. Typography and shape


4. Cover settings


5. Buttons


6. Finding images

The Reset to theme button returns every visual setting to the selected theme's defaults.